Is it harder to learn to ride a bicycle or learn how to swim?

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It took me 3 hours to get a bike rolling enough to enjoy it

It took me 1.5 years of learning how to swim to enjoy it

Make of that what you will

>>1003671
I would imagine it depends largely on how much your inability to swim is caused by fear of drowning.
You fall off a bike, you're not gonna die, but even coughing on a bit of water can be fucking scary. Feels like you're gonna die.

As far as simple mechanics go, I think it's easier to learn how to doggy paddle from scratch than it is hopping on a two wheeled bike from the start. Balence is a hard thing to learn if you can't already do it.

I think learning to swim without arm floats was a lot easier than learning to ride without training wheels - but like you say, it was so long ago that it's hard to remember.

On the other hand, I think getting better at swimming is harder than getting better at cycling - especially if you don't live on the coast or work on a ship. You can just casually bike around or commute to work and get better every day on a bike, but swimming requires straight-up training.

>>1003671
>Is it harder to learn to ride a bicycle or learn how to swim? I can barely remember learning either.

I still don't know how to swim.

>>1003671
>Is it harder to learn to ride a bicycle or learn how to swim? I can barely remember learning either.

Humanity has been swimming for thousands of years, while bicycles have only been around for one hundred years.

Point goes to swimming there.

I learnt to swim at a far younger age than when I learnt to ride a bicycle. I don't remember how hard it was to learn.
I vastly prefer walking and swimming over cycling. I'd even rather do backstroke, my least favourite stroke, over cycling.
Also, anyone who can't do a 400 metre IM doesn't know how to swim.

>depriving yourself from two additional ways to move through space
Think about it like this: if humans could fly but you had to learn how to, wouldn't you?

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>>1003688

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>>1003711

>>1003671
Swimming is harder. I learned bicycle in one day. Swimming took a lot more.

Learned bike when I was 9 learned swim when I was 11

>>1003846
Ive learned swimming in exactly 17 min

>>1003688
[spoiler] I still don't know how to ride a bike, but I know how to swim. [/spoiler]

It was harder for me to learn to bike, I never was really scared of water but I was scared more of falling on a hard ground.

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Swimming is good if you don't want to drown but I'd certainly never swim as mode of transport.

>>1003881
I almost swam as a mode of transport once, but the person who was to drive me to the body of water had a tantrum instead and I ended up unable to do so.

swimming is easy

swimming fast is way the fuck harder than cycling fast tho

>>1003688
>Why don't black Americans swim?

>>1005161
There is nothing of value to steal underwater.

>>1004056
>office is located on a river bank
>you can row to work

shit is cash tbfam

>>1004062
This. On road or especially on trails nobody passes me. But when swimming its sometimes hard to keep up with old men.

>>1005245
>being suspended in liquid that is touching your genitals and touching the genitals of old men

I'm kind of turned on anon